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[whirring, ♪...] that's the pro-grade motor at work-- versacut is tough enough to handle it. it does the work for me. >> announcer: make your next job-- no matter how tough it is-- easier and faster with versacut. eliminate setup time: just drop what you're cutting on a piece of scrap wood. with versacut, you're done before you could even get another power saw off your truck. work faster, work safer, work easier, with the workshop in one hand: versacut. [♪...] >> check this out. the boys in the back put a little something together to show how easy versacut is to use in any position. it's a scale model of a room. you've got your floors, of course, your walls and ceiling-- any position you need to work in, versacut can do the job. >> steve: now, my first job is to finish off the prefinished flooring. i can work right in place because of the depth control feature on this saw. working on a piece of scrap lumber, drop it into place and

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so i think that's a big advantage. homeowners could use it. professionals could use it. i can see tile setters using it, a lot of flooring people. >> i like that. i like that a lot. whether it's a homeowner, a contractor, a d.i.y.-er, lots of people could use the versacut. even i could use the versacut. >> i like the size of the blade. it's something that's lightweight and easy to use, but yet it's got the power of a bigger tool. i think i'm going to ask my wife to get me one for christmas. >> jennifer: just like the guys out in kansas city, when you pick up a versacut, you'll see how much easier it'll make your next project. >> versacut is lightweight and easy to use. it's designed so you can cut pretty much anything right in place on top of a simple piece of scrap lumber. >> take a minute right now, call and have a versacut delivered right to your front door. >> announcer: introducing versacut, the all-new, award-winning design innovation from rockwell, created to do the work of circular saws, table saws, chop saws and tile saws,

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from? >> right. >> you think that's why he identified him as the shooter, because he remembered him from this party? >> right. classic transference. >> the photo explained the i.d. >> for some reason when i saw him in the photo lineup, it clicked. i thought, that must be him. i recognize him. and obviously it wasn't him. >> so garrett was wrong in picking kuros as the man who shot him.

and that left prosecutors with two questions. who did shoot garrett? and since he had garrett's photo and address in his trunk, could kuros still somehow be involved? prosecutor hun chun began to rethink the case. >> the defense attorneys agreed that we could talk to mr. kuros, and they let us talk to him. the detectives and i keep coming back to this hit note, to where it's found. he doesn't know garrett warren. their interaction was very brief at that barbecue. >> detectives kept after kuros. they knew that whoever ordered the hit really wanted garrett warren dead. because here's one more twist. the postmark on the note is from after the shooting. meaning that it's not so much a hit note as a note explaining to someone how to go back and finish the job. >> it's a rehit, if you want to call it that. >> that finish the job note, says chun, started to unravel

the mystery. >> that was really kind of what broke the case open. that was, quite frankly, the lifeline we had on this case. >> the one unavoidable piece of evidence that finally cracked miguel kuros. >> we go back round and round about this, and finally he admits that he was one of the middle men. >> miguel kuros admitted that while he wasn't the shooter, he was in on the plot and that he was caught by his own carelessness. >> he explained that that hit note had been sent directly to him, that he had put it under the spare tire in the trunk of his car and literally, he said, he had forgotten about it. >> so the reason you ended up finding that hit note under the spare tire in the trunk of mr. kuros' car was that he put it there for safekeeping and then forgot it? >> this is one of those stranger than fiction kind of things. certainly nobody would write a script like this because they would have to look at any self-respecting director or

producer would have the look you're having and think, come on, that's ridiculous. but people forget things. >> disorganized crime. >> yeah. >> luckily for prosecutors, miguelkuros had not sworn a blood oath to never rat on his friends. quite the opposite. he rolled over like lassie and cut a deal. he agreed to wear a wire and help collect evidence on his co-conspirators. and so, as they say around here, the plot thickens. coming up, the world's worst hit man. >> i apologize, i'm not a good shot. >> as the plot thickens. [ thunder crashes ] [ male announcer ] if you think all batteries are the same... consider this: when the unexpected happens, there's one brand of battery more emergency workers trust in their maglites: duracell. one reason: duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. so, whether it's 10 years' of life's sunny days...

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fade in. los angeles county, nighttime. a police informant wears a wire as he talks to a partner in crime. >> i don't got to work on you, you don't got to work on me. >> the informant, miguel kuros. he's the pizza parlor owner turned small-time drug dealer and the man found a hit note in his car targeting garrett warren. now he was collaborating with investigators. detectives already knew kuros wasn't the shooter.

he told them the man who actually pulled the trigger was an old friend of his named hernand hernandez. as part of a deal with prosecutors, kuros wore a body wire and approached hernandez at a party. kuros said he hired hernandez for $10,000 to kill garrett warren. on the tape, hernandez made clear he didn't waste any of that money on transportation. >> i used my own car. >> hernandez can be heard saying he's sorry he didn't manage to kill garrett warren. >> i apologize, i'm not a good shot. >> and hernandez made clear he was ready to try again. >> get the guns or whatever and we'll finish it off if that's what you need. >> speaking to prosecutor hun chun, kuros explained his own involvement, that he had been paid to hire hernandez as a hit man, and he explained where the trail led. >> mr. kuros told you that he didn't do it but that he was in on the planning.

>> right. >> and that he did it at the behest of his friend, manuel harrow. >> manny harrow was miguel kuros' longtime friend. they worked together in the pizza business and the drug business. if the last name harrow sounds familiar, it should. manny's sister claudia is garrett warren's ex-wife. prosecutor chun says that explains mr. harrow's involvement. >> emanuel harrow was doing this for his sister claudia. >> what was married to garrett. >> who was once married to garrett but at the time was going through a very contentious divorce. on the scale of 1 to 10, this was an 11. >> this was about custody of the daughter. >> this was about custody of the daughter, exactly. she had a lot of antipathy that was expressed toward garrett warren. >> she said you were going to bleed, right? >> yep. >> generally when one spouse says to another, you're going to bleed, it's a sign of bad times to come. >> you're right.

>> prosecutors thought they were beginning to understand the outlines of the plot that killed garrett warren. infuriated by a bitter custody battle, they believe claudia harrow had set it all in motion. but proving that wouldn't be easy. investigators began by looking at how claudia might have persuaded her brother to get involved in a murder. detectives arrested jorge hernandez and manny harrow and charged them with a conspiracy. when they questioned manny, they learned about a secret of his that might explain why manny would want garrett warren dead. >> we didn't really talk about me giving him a lesson until i was at least 22, probably. >> manny told investigators he had been molested as a child, and remember, manny's sister claudia, during her divorce from garrett warren, claimed that garrett had molested their daughter. those allegations were thoroughly investigated. a judge said they were

unfounded. but now investigators had to consider another plot twist because of something else manny said, that not only had he been molested but that the only other person in the world who knew about that secret was his sister claudia. >> being that i've been through certain things in my childhood as far as like molestation, and my sister was the only one i confided in and told her about my molestation thing that happened to me when i was younger. >> had claudia manipulated manny by telling him only part of the story? >> did she ever let you know that the judge, you know, someone independent in her child custody case, had found that the allegations that she was making against garrett were false? did she ever tell you that? >> i never asked and she never told me. so i think she knew how to hit the nerve bad. she was molesting her, so i think she knew it was on her.

>> manny said his sister's exact language were that she wanted garrett taken out. >> i'm also positive she didn't use the word murder or kill. but it's like me telling you, i want you to take him out, you know what that means, meaning kill. >> manny harrow, a small-time criminal, was pointing the finger of guilt straight at his sister, an actress and mother who had been married to hollywood stardom and who had never had a problem with the law. it was hard to believe, except maybe for the intended victim of the murder plot. he believed claudia was behind it from the get-go. >> i knew there was only one person that wanted this done to me. >> he felt that way even as the investigation pointed in every other direction, until finally, five years after the shooting, detectives arrested claudia harrow. >> i did think to myself, you

know, thank god. finally i don't feel crazy anymore. >> but he was in for another shock. prosecutors did not feel the case was strong enough because manny harrow had not agreed to testify against claudia. and the d.a.'s office declined to file charges. >> i'm thinking you probably hated that. >> yes, but that's not the worst of it. i was proud to call garrett and tell him, guess what? i've arrested claudia harrow for hiring a hit man to kill you. >> and then you got to call him back and say -- >> you're not going to believe it, but i got to let her go. >> 48 hours after detectives arrested claudia, she was back on the street, completely free once again. >> but i guaranteed him that i would not stop. >> what would it take to write a new ending to this story with a new role for the beauty that investigators believed was their femme fatale? or would claudia harrow escape prosecution simply by denying

she had been involved? >> the bottom line principle is this. lying isn't just about saying the words and mouthing the words. the words have to make sense. and when they don't make sense, you can have a problem. >> lying is tougher than people think it is. >> oh, it's a lot tougher than people think it is. >> when we come back, claudia harrow tells her story. waiter: here's your check. oh! you--you got it. you know, since i got rid of my car, i really enjoy walking. ok. got it? no, i'm good. announcer: getting pulled over for buzzed driving could cost you around $10,000 in fines, legal fees, and increased insurance rates. oh, you're home early. you live with your mom? announcer: that'll set your game back a few years. buzzed, busted, and broke because buzzed driving is drunk driving.

close-up. claudia harrow. she once played a showgirl in a gangster movie. was once married to a legendary movie gangster. now she was accused of hiring a hit man in real life. sheriff's detectives arrested her, but prosecutor hun chun did not file charges, and claudia was turned loose.

chun felt he needed stronger evidence. >> i did not think there was a fileable case at that point. >> but claudia's broermther man changed that. he took a plea deal from prosecutors and finally agreed to testify against his sister. >> at some point, does somebody approach you about doing something, killing somebody? >> yes. >> okay. >> my sister claudia approached me, claudia harrow approached me. >> that made the difference. detectives rearrested claudia harrow. this time the prosecutor charged her with two counts of attempted murder and one of conspiracy to commit murder. claudia denied everything. >> do you know who shot garrett warren? >> i don't know. >> do you know why he was shot? >> no. i don't know. >> but while there was evidence enough to charge claudia, was there enough to convict her? >> you got mr. kuros' admission. >> right. >> and you got mr. hal and mr.

hernandez on tape. >> right. >> but you don't have anything proving that claudia harrow set this in motion. >> we have the motive, the contentious divorce proceedings. we have the timing of this. because what happens is the judge finds the child abuse allegations to be false. on april 12, i believe, of 2000, the hit occurs about a month and a week after that, on may 20 of 2000. >> all of that is circumstantial. >> i agree. i agree. >> but soon there was more. prosecutors said the handwriting on the hit note matched claudia harrow's. and when prosecutors compared samples of claudia's letters to garrett with the hit notes, they noticed the misspelling of this word, agora, as in agoura hills at garrett warren's home. in the hit note and in claudia's letters, the word is misspelled the exact same way, augora.

claudia insisted she had never given any notes or maps to miguel kuros. >> did you ever give him any type of paperwork? >> not that i can think of, no. >> so if we had, say, someone's address written in your handwriting -- >> i don't know. not from me. i don't know. >> she claimed to know very little about what her brother, manny harrow, might have been up to. >> why would your brother, who had never even met garrett, want him killed? >> i don't know. that's not -- >> why would he tell us that you're the one that asked him to be killed and help arrange it? >> i don't know. >> did you ever give your brother a large amount of money? >> no. >> any amount whatsoever? >> i don't think i ever had a large amount of money. >> as we said, every hollywood story eventually comes back to money. if claudia harrow paid somebody 10 grand to ice garrett warren,

where did she get the cash? detectives took a good look at her other ex-husband, tough guy actor joe peschi. remember that snapshot of kuros and garrett warren and their kids? that was taken at the hollywood hills home of joe peschi. >> we interviewed joe peschi. we just wanted to ask him if he gave her a large sum of money at that time. there was no evidence to indicate he had any involvement. >> claudia harrow said she wanted to do an interview with us, but we were not able to speak with her in jail. we spoke with her defense attorney, tom meserau, best known for defending michael jackson. >> the picture that's drawn is a vengeful woman that would not stop at nothing to keep her daughter away from her ex-husband. >> whoever gave you that information doesn't know claudia harrow. >> meserau says if claudia is

guilty of anything, it's having a career criminal for a brother. >> i would say manny harrow was abused as a child, he was desperate to be released as a drug dealer, and when he got caught, he used his sister to try to gain freedom for himself. >> not only that, but those hit notes allegedly written by claudia? >> i'm convinced these are forgeries. claudia never wrote any hit note to anybody. nobody ever talked to her about whacking someone, murdering someone or shootings someone. >> meserau was ready with those arguments and more, and who knows what a jury might have done. remember that movie "my cousin vinny" where joe peschi played a lawyer who got his client dismissed of murder charges. >> the state would like to dismiss all charges. >> well, this movie didn't end that way. on the eve of trial, claudia harrow decided not to fight the charges. she pleaded no contest to two

counts of attempted murder. she received a sentence of 12 years and 4 months. she's unlikely to serve all of it. claudia's friend julie. >> the deal she was offered, she'll be out in eight years and she gets to see her daughter grow up. >> and that's why she took it. >> and at her sentencing, joe peschi showed up to support his ex-wife. as for the others, miguel kuros and manny harrow took plea deals. kuros has a three-year suspended sentence in return for his cooperation. harrow was sentenced to life in prison but will be eligible for parole. the hired gunman, jorge hernandez, was tried and convicted on charges of attempted murder and conspiracy. he's serving a sentence of 77 years to life. it's not uncommon in film noir to have the femme fatale get away with the crime. if claudia harrow did mastermind

this attempted murder, she ended up getting a very good deal. >> claudia's brother manny and the alleged shooter pretty much got maxed out on their sentences. claudia, supposedly the ringleader, is going to be out in a few years. are you okay with that? >> yes. you know, the amount of time you spend behind bars is nothing to, you know, what i believe will be eternity afterwards. i believe we all pay one day no matter what. >> you seem remarkably free of anger. >> i am. and everyone should be in this world. she made a mistake. i've made mistakes. no one is perfect. >> surprised? you shouldn't be. that trifecta of love, money and murder isn't new to hollywood. neither are stories about beautiful women who turn out to be as tough as a $5